Overall GiG Score: 3 ?
Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 8
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +3

WORLDWRITE 

WORLDwrite advances the education of young people aged 16 to 25 years, promotes international understanding, facilitates the use of film, new media and Citizen TV and encourages young people to develop new skills through volunteering. It is not a grant giving charity.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending is declining
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 27 years

www.worldbytes.org

world.write@btconnect.com

02089855435

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/10/23£65£85£-20n/an/an/an/an/a312
31/10/22£95£85£10n/an/an/an/an/a411
31/10/21£88£76£11n/an/an/an/an/a412
31/10/20£59£60£-2n/an/an/an/an/a150
31/10/19£93£115£-22n/an/an/an/an/a300
31/10/18£126£118£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/17£127£119£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/16£101£119£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/15£158£135£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/14£90£134£-44£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/13£185£143£42£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/12£82£138£-56£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/11£178£151£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/10£198£165£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/09£147£183£-35£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/08£222£211£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/07£189£169£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/06£128£143£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/05£127£110£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/04£99£91£8£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 312 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to WORLDwrite
£9,500 08/02/2023
Making Common Cause: The UK Solidarity Story
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to WORLDwrite
£10,000 07/03/2018
Women: A Success Story
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to WORLDwrite
£60,000 27/09/2017
24
Towards the unrestricted core costs of an organisation that delivers immersive training in journalism and broadcasting to disadvantaged young people, enabling them to develop their voice and raise ....more
Greater London Authority - Grant to Worldwrite
£5,000 04/09/2015
Increasing group volunteering and supporting skills based volunteering
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to WORLDwrite
£70,000 05/06/2013
Every Cook Can Govern: Documenting the life, works and impact of CLR James
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to WORLDwrite
£90,000 27/02/2013
Towards the salaries of the co-director posts of an organisation that delivers immersive training in journalism and broadcasting to disadvantaged young people.
National Lottery Community Fund - News programs produced by and about young unemplyed people in Hackney
£10,000 15/01/2010
12
This group based in Hackney will use an award to train a group of unemployed people in aspects of film, media and news reporting to equip the group in order to produce a series of filmed news ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to WORLDwrite
£70,671 16/06/2009
36
Towards Core costs Towards the salary of the assistant director, to run 'WORLDbytes', an experimental online news magazine channel run by young disadvantaged volunteers.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 21/02/1997, number: 1060869
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

201 Millfields Road
London
E5 0AL

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 13 AND 25 YEARS INCLUSIVE, PARTICULARLY BY WAY OF INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES AND TOURS, IN SUBJECTS SUCH AS HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, CULTURE AND LANGUAGES AND IN INTER-PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND PRACTICAL LIFE SKILLS SO AS TO ASSIST SUCH YOUNG PERSONS IN GROWING TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS MEMBERS OF SOCIETY

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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